Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heavy woman dressed in black and with long, flashing carrings, who was striding toward the microphone at the edge of the platform. The orchestra struck up a jaunty melody and there was a song about marching on. The audience joined in on the second stanza and a hand stuck out over the balcony to wave time...
This cannon, stuck muzzle first into the ground, is traditionally painted with the numerals of the graduating class. Last year a giant orange "51" was mysteriously changed to an equally giant "'54" by the then-freshman class. Just as mysteriously the following night it was changed to a "'24," which happens by some coincidence to be the Princeton class of several important University officials, including Godolphin. The culprit has not yet been found...
...word was passed to get Maxwell, and eleven Penn men made a game try, aiming at the Swarthmore gargantua each play, and battering him in between times. But Maxwell stuck it out. When he left the field, his head was bloody but unbowed. A photographer snapped him, and soon the picture got into the hands of President Theodore Roosevelt. The rough-and-ready leader was so enraged he threatened to ban football forever if this kind of playing was not stopped...
...pictures show us the intelligence, the assiduity, the pride, sensitivity, and courage of ordinary people, and consequently the mixed feelings with which they have received our generosity. At this point we find two individuals confronting each other in Mr. Goodfriend's pages--a baffied American advertising executive, evidently stuck on the problem how further to exploit the "X" in LUX ("New! Faster! Sudsier! So Safe!"), and a primordial-looking Chinese oldster, complete with whiskers and pipe, peering quizzically at us through Chinese eyes. The subsequent illustrations of what WE SAW and what THEY SAW ("WE SAW output raised by tractors...
...Cavalry Regiment was hacking its way up another of the unnamed, unnumbered hills of Korea. Back at the ist Cavalry Division's headquarters, Captain Richard K. Cole, 28, of Orlando, Fla., was waiting. A corpsman stuck his head through the tent flap and called out: "Patients for you, doc." Psychiatrist Cole picked up his only instruments, a notebook and pencil, and sat down on a packing case. The corpsman led the first patient in, handing his medical record to Cole...